Research at the University of Padova in the Field of Space Debris Impacts against Satellites: An Overview of Activities in the Last 10 Years
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
İmpact testing facility and modelling are presented. Some comparisons if there are may be added.
Author Response
Authors: comparisons with other activities and related challenges have been added in the conclusion.
Reviewer 2 Report
This paper is an extensive review rather than a presentation of a single piece of original research. It will be useful as a guide to the scattered literature on this subject, and should be published.
Minor comments:
PEEK does not appear to be define, nor is the ordinate (d_crit) in Fig .3 .
A table of acronyms would be useful to many readers.
Author Response
Authors: both comments have been addressed by adding an initial list of acronyms. In a similar fashion, dcrit is defined in Fig. 3 caption.
Reviewer 3 Report
This paper addresses recent research activities that have been conducted at the University of Padova in the framework of Space Debris. The work is completely aligned with the Special Issue “Recent Advances in Space Debris”, whose main purpose is to present advances in research on space debris to improve the safety of the near-Earth orbits and mitigate the risks related to debris impacts. Minor revisions are expected to improve the quality of the document.
1. Spelling mistakes should be reviewed within the document. For instance, in line 16 it should be “represents”. In lines 64 and 65, it should be Section (with capital S”. And so forth.
2. From the contribution point of view, I would suggest expanding the Conclusions with a comment that presents the challenges and limitations of the works performed by the research group on Space Debris.
Author Response
Reviewer – 3: This paper addresses recent research activities that have been conducted at the University of Padova in the framework of Space Debris. The work is completely aligned with the Special Issue “Recent Advances in Space Debris”, whose main purpose is to present advances in research on space debris to improve the safety of the near-Earth orbits and mitigate the risks related to debris impacts. Minor revisions are expected to improve the quality of the document.
Authors: thanks for the kind words; we hope that the revised manuscript will address the reviewer suggestions.
Reviewer – 3.1. Spelling mistakes should be reviewed within the document. For instance, in line 16 it should be “represents”. In lines 64 and 65, it should be Section (with capital S”. And so forth.
Authors: the whole document was carefully checked and spelling mistakes have been fixed.
Reviewer – 3.2. From the contribution point of view, I would suggest expanding the Conclusions with a comment that presents the challenges and limitations of the works performed by the research group on Space Debris.
Authors: The Conclusions have been expanded accordingly, including challenges and limitations.
